Inclusion and Diversity Contracts in England

Inclusion and Diversity
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Inclusion and Diversity in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Inclusion and Diversity over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 155 180
Rank change year-on-year +15 +25 +232
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 520 571 667
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.16% 1.55% 1.40%
As % of the General category 3.37% 2.69% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 409 446
10th Percentile £185 £423 £475
25th Percentile £394 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £610 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.30% +1.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £700
90th Percentile £704 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £508 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -15.42% - +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 18 5
10th Percentile - £9.92 -
25th Percentile - £11.65 £13.31
Median hourly rate £22.14 £18.20 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.67% -53.34% -25.00%
75th Percentile £27.32 £34.21 £40.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £57.86 £60.70
UK median hourly rate £22.14 £21.64 £39.00
% change year-on-year +2.31% -44.51% -25.00%

All General Skills
England

Inclusion and Diversity falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 15,409 21,227 28,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.11% 57.72% 59.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,952 13,648 19,787
10th Percentile £285 £281 £315
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £794
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 696 1,806 902
10th Percentile £13.43 £13.00 £13.42
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.50 £17.73
Median hourly rate £27.70 £30.44 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% -4.89% +48.84%
75th Percentile £53.75 £52.50 £60.41
90th Percentile £75.00 £66.87 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.76 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.47% -7.69% +44.44%

Inclusion and Diversity
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Inclusion and Diversity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Inclusion and Diversity in England

Inclusion and Diversity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity in England.

Daily rate trend for Inclusion and Diversity in England

Inclusion and Diversity
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in England

Inclusion and Diversity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity in England.

Hourly rate trend for Inclusion and Diversity in England

Inclusion and Diversity
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in England

Inclusion and Diversity
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity within the England region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -25 257 £588 -4.47% 716
North of England +56 81 £400 -16.67% 1,097
Midlands +18 65 £438 -20.45% 964
South East +59 59 £508 +26.88% 1,413
Yorkshire +54 49 £400 -16.67% 451
West Midlands +4 45 £438 -23.91% 524
South West +65 37 £601 -7.62% 616
North West +26 30 £425 -20.93% 498
East of England +47 21 £325 -51.85% 691
East Midlands +26 20 £438 -18.60% 372
North East -7 2 £550 - 153
Inclusion and Diversity
UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 31 (5.96%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.12%) CMS
2 11 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.73%) Confluence
4 4 (0.77%) Drupal
4 4 (0.77%) IBM Notes
5 3 (0.58%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.58%) IIS
5 3 (0.58%) SharePoint 2010
6 2 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (0.38%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.19%) SAS
Applications
1 52 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (6.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.96%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.58%) InfoPath
5 3 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.19%) FileZilla
7 1 (0.19%) Revit
Business Applications
1 6 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.38%) Infor SunSystems
3 2 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.19%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.19%) Infor LN
4 1 (0.19%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 66 (12.69%) Microsoft 365
2 64 (12.31%) Azure
3 42 (8.08%) Power Platform
4 41 (7.88%) Entra ID
5 29 (5.58%) AWS
6 14 (2.69%) GCP
7 9 (1.73%) Google Workspace
7 9 (1.73%) Snowflake
8 8 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (1.54%) SaaS
9 7 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (1.15%) dbt
11 5 (0.96%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (0.96%) Power Automate
11 5 (0.96%) PowerApps
12 4 (0.77%) Amazon S3
12 4 (0.77%) Asana
12 4 (0.77%) GitHub
12 4 (0.77%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (0.77%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 29 (5.58%) Firewall
2 13 (2.50%) Intranet
3 12 (2.31%) VLAN
3 12 (2.31%) VPN
3 12 (2.31%) Wi-Fi
4 11 (2.12%) DHCP
4 11 (2.12%) DNS
5 6 (1.15%) Network Security
5 6 (1.15%) WAN
6 5 (0.96%) BGP
6 5 (0.96%) LAN
6 5 (0.96%) OSPF
6 5 (0.96%) Wireless
7 4 (0.77%) EIGRP
7 4 (0.77%) Radio Access Network
8 3 (0.58%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (0.58%) IPsec
8 3 (0.58%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (0.58%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.58%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (6.73%) Power BI
2 16 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (1.54%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.35%) Tableau
5 5 (0.96%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (0.77%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.77%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.58%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (0.58%) Hadoop
7 3 (0.58%) Power Query
8 2 (0.38%) Big Data
8 2 (0.38%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.38%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.38%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.38%) Oracle ODI
8 2 (0.38%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (3.27%) JIRA
2 9 (1.73%) Git
3 7 (1.35%) Selenium
4 6 (1.15%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.77%) GitLab
5 4 (0.77%) HP UFT
5 4 (0.77%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.77%) TestComplete
6 3 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.58%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.38%) Chocolatey
7 2 (0.38%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.38%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.38%) ERwin
7 2 (0.38%) GoogleTest
7 2 (0.38%) JMeter
7 2 (0.38%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.38%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.38%) ScriptRunner
7 2 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 178 (34.23%) Social Skills
2 113 (21.73%) Finance
3 78 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (8.27%) Public Sector
5 33 (6.35%) Retail
6 20 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (2.88%) Telecoms
8 12 (2.31%) Local Government
9 11 (2.12%) Public Speaking
10 10 (1.92%) Marketing
10 10 (1.92%) Police
11 9 (1.73%) Law
11 9 (1.73%) Legal
12 8 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.35%) Banking
13 7 (1.35%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.96%) Automotive
15 5 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (18.46%) Analyst
2 56 (10.77%) IT Support
3 37 (7.12%) Business Analyst
4 35 (6.73%) Developer
5 28 (5.38%) IT Manager
6 27 (5.19%) Senior
7 26 (5.00%) IT Engineer
8 25 (4.81%) Lead
9 24 (4.62%) Support Engineer
10 23 (4.42%) Architect
11 20 (3.85%) 1st Line Support
11 20 (3.85%) Project Manager
12 19 (3.65%) IT Support Engineer
13 18 (3.46%) Consultant
13 18 (3.46%) Support Manager
14 13 (2.50%) Service Analyst
14 13 (2.50%) Support Analyst
15 12 (2.31%) 1st Line Support Manager
15 12 (2.31%) IT Support Manager
16 11 (2.12%) Communications Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.50%) EDI
2 9 (1.73%) .NET
3 7 (1.35%) RESTful
4 6 (1.15%) Akka
4 6 (1.15%) CSS
4 6 (1.15%) HTML
5 5 (0.96%) jQuery
5 5 (0.96%) Play Framework
6 4 (0.77%) AngularJS
6 4 (0.77%) LDAP
6 4 (0.77%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (0.77%) Playwright
7 3 (0.58%) React
8 2 (0.38%) Kafka
8 2 (0.38%) Node.js
8 2 (0.38%) Web Services
9 1 (0.19%) Mustache
9 1 (0.19%) REST
9 1 (0.19%) Sass
9 1 (0.19%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 21 (4.04%) Management Information System
2 19 (3.65%) Smartphone
3 18 (3.46%) iPhone
4 17 (3.27%) Onboarding
4 17 (3.27%) Product Ownership
5 16 (3.08%) Driving Licence
6 12 (2.31%) Data Centre
6 12 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.35%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.15%) Security Posture
9 5 (0.96%) Industry 4.0
9 5 (0.96%) IoT
9 5 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (0.96%) Photography
9 5 (0.96%) Public Cloud
9 5 (0.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 4 (0.77%) Molecular Biology
11 3 (0.58%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.58%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 61 (11.73%) Windows
2 25 (4.81%) Mac OS
3 22 (4.23%) Linux
4 10 (1.92%) Windows 10
5 9 (1.73%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.15%) Windows 7
7 3 (0.58%) Android
7 3 (0.58%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.38%) Unix
8 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.19%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.19%) VMS
9 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (20.58%) Problem-Solving
2 79 (15.19%) Agile
3 59 (11.35%) ITIL
4 52 (10.00%) Service Management
5 51 (9.81%) Migration
6 47 (9.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 41 (7.88%) Customer Service
8 38 (7.31%) ITSM
9 36 (6.92%) Business Intelligence
10 34 (6.54%) Stakeholder Management
11 33 (6.35%) Project Management
12 29 (5.58%) Change Management
12 29 (5.58%) Collaborative Working
12 29 (5.58%) Incident Management
13 28 (5.38%) Analytics
13 28 (5.38%) Decision-Making
13 28 (5.38%) Mentoring
13 28 (5.38%) User Experience
14 26 (5.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 25 (4.81%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 47 (9.04%) SQL
2 30 (5.77%) Python
3 17 (3.27%) JavaScript
4 12 (2.31%) PowerShell
5 11 (2.12%) C#
6 8 (1.54%) Java
6 8 (1.54%) Scala
7 5 (0.96%) C++
8 3 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.58%) R
8 3 (0.58%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.38%) ABAP
9 2 (0.38%) Groovy
9 2 (0.38%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.19%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.19%) Go
10 1 (0.19%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.19%) VB
10 1 (0.19%) VBA
10 1 (0.19%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 68 (13.08%) Security Cleared
2 63 (12.12%) SC Cleared
3 45 (8.65%) Degree
4 12 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (2.31%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (1.35%) DBS Check
6 6 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (0.96%) APMP
7 5 (0.96%) CISSP
7 5 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (0.96%) Postgraduate
8 4 (0.77%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.58%) ACCA
9 3 (0.58%) CIMA
10 2 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.38%) CCNA
10 2 (0.38%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.38%) CRISC
10 2 (0.38%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.04%) SLA
2 19 (3.65%) QA
3 17 (3.27%) Accessibility
3 17 (3.27%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.15%) NIST
4 6 (1.15%) P3O
5 4 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.77%) PMO
6 3 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.38%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.38%) WCAG
8 1 (0.19%) COBIT
8 1 (0.19%) COSO
8 1 (0.19%) GDPR
8 1 (0.19%) GxP
8 1 (0.19%) IFRS
8 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 66 (12.69%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.15%) Docker
2 6 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.38%) Firmware
4 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (4.23%) Jamf Pro
2 12 (2.31%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (2.12%) SCCM
4 6 (1.15%) Ansible
4 6 (1.15%) Kibana
4 6 (1.15%) Kubernetes
5 5 (0.96%) Terraform
6 4 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.38%) Nagios
8 1 (0.19%) QRadar
8 1 (0.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 100 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 41 (7.88%) ServiceNow
3 23 (4.42%) Apple
4 22 (4.23%) Google
5 18 (3.46%) Cisco
6 15 (2.88%) Salesforce
7 14 (2.69%) Oracle
8 13 (2.50%) SAP
9 10 (1.92%) VMware
10 7 (1.35%) IFS
11 6 (1.15%) Databricks
12 5 (0.96%) Bloomberg
12 5 (0.96%) Blue Prism
12 5 (0.96%) CyberArk
12 5 (0.96%) UiPath
13 4 (0.77%) Lotus
13 4 (0.77%) Remedy
13 4 (0.77%) Reuters
13 4 (0.77%) SolarWinds
13 4 (0.77%) Veeam